Chapter 75 Start making iron as soon as possible
"Don't ask, it must be a new army. Look at his clothes. Although his clothes are dirty, they are also official clothes. Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers dare to attack the salt ship. You are so bold!" He Zhaoyi said and lit the oil lamp in the cabin.
"Destroy it!" Zhang Yang said harshly.
Shixin was already next to him and turned off the oil lamp.
He Zhaoyi was angry: "What's wrong with the oil lamp? How can I see that he is a new attache to the army without lighting the light? With that, he went back to the cabin angrily and pulled his own curtain just now.
The light will expose themselves. Since they are a new attached army, they are naturally a regular army. Among the people who just escaped, if there is an archer, if the archer comes back quietly, he will die inexplicably.
"Tay! Are you a new annexed army?" Zhang Yang asked.
Hearing that he had come from, the man finally lowered his head.
"We are the new attached army."
"Say, why did you come here and how did you sneak up on us?" Shi Xin grabbed a handful of salt in his hand. "No, let you taste the taste of all the salt into your mouth."
"We went to besiege Haozhou City for a month, but we didn't attack it. Later, we retreated, but on the way back, we were ambushed by the Red Turban Army. Daluhua died. According to the military rules, we all had to be executed, and everyone dispersed as deserters, and some said that they simply joined the Red Turban Army. We ran here and saw your boat parked here, and we wanted to make a little money. As a result..."
"It turned out to be a mistake in chess, and I was beaten!" Shi Xinyang said proudly, but he didn't care at all. In fact, he didn't help except get a stick.
Haozhou City? Zhang Yang suddenly thought of the mirage he saw last time. Who was the majestic man in it?
"Who are there in Haozhou City?"
"There is Guo Zixing, Sun Deya, and a relatively brave person named Zhu Chongba, but later he changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang."
Zhu Yuanzhang? These three big words, like a thunderbolt, exploded in Zhang Yang's mind.
Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang, have joined the Red Turban Army and began to fight the world. I have to speed up my pace and start my career, make iron and make weapons. We must speed up. The troubled times have begun!
"Brother, brother, what's wrong with you?" Shi Yi found that something was wrong with Zhang Yang and asked.
"It's okay, I'm fine." Zhang Yang said.
"What should we do with this person?" Shi Yi asked.
Before Zhang Yang could speak, the man had found that everyone was paying attention to Zhang Yang and ignored his attention to himself. He turned his head, bypassed the blade, and suddenly said, "Puff!" It rolled into the water.
"Rap arrows!" Zhang Yang shouted.
Everyone couldn't help but pick up the crossbow and shoot arrows at the place where he had just dived.
"Pull the anchor, lift the sail, and sail!" Zhang Yang said.
"Big brother..." Everyone was puzzled.
"We have exposed the target, and we have just run a few. If they go back and call some people, we may suffer losses. We'd better go forward another waterway, change places, and stop again. Send two people to watch and then rest. Zhang Yang said.
"Yes, the eldest brother is thoughtful." Everyone began to work one after another, preparing to sail.
After this toss, many people have been sleepless all night.
At noon the next day, when I arrived in Hezhou, He Zhaoyi contacted the buyer. Due to the Red Turban Army Uprising, many places were in the chaos of war. The refined salt in many large households was gone, and the merchants also had no inventory. These refined salts were soon distributed to major merchants, sold out, and sold at a good price of 350 yuan and one taels. Some merchants didn't get the goods and were unwilling. They actually gave He Zhaoyi a deposit in advance and prepared it for them the next time they send salt.
After getting the money, He Zhaoyi was as happy as a child. A load of salt sold more than 30 taels of silver. Excluding the cost and ten taels per load of refined salt, there were still 15 taels left. With this hundred taels of salt, she earned more than 1,500 taels!
Her face suddenly blushed, and she jumped up and kissed Zhang Yang, making everyone next to her stunned.
Zhang Yang was shocked: What's going on with this little girl? Moreover, she is still dressed as a prince, so she won't let everyone think that there is something wrong with her surname orientation, right?
According to the prior agreement, He Zhaoyi has given a thousand taels of silver to Zhang Yang.
Zhang Yang got the money, but he was not very happy. The silver could not stay with him for long.
The worker's wages are 20 cents a day, and now there are more than 50 people. The wages are more than 40 taels a month, and they also plan to give each household a house with one or two taels of silver, so that people have the heart to work for themselves. Each of his brothers also earned two taels of silver, as the money that follows him these days. What hurts me the most is that I haven't found the coal I need for ironmaking. In order to start work immediately after going back, I have to buy a boat of coal to transport it to the base. This ship of coal needs about 500 taels of silver!
In the end, I can only have about 100 taels left. Keep it in your pocket!
These are not the most important. The most important thing is how Li Bosheng's arrangement is going. Has the blast furnace been built? Can your own ironmaking plan be carried out smoothly?
With iron, weapons can be made.
After returning, he passed by Yangzhou. He Zhaoyi did not propose to follow again, but handed over the salt to Zhang Yang and went home by herself.
Needless to say, Zhang Yang can also guess that he has this ability. Of course, he has to go home to show off. This young lady is really patient enough to calm down and not go home until now. From this point of view, she still has some advantages, which is much better than those vulgar women who only know rouge gouache. However, she sneaked out for so long. I don't know what kind of mood Mr. He should be.
He Zhaoyi gave the salt to Zhang Yang so generously and asked Zhang Yang to keep it for himself. He said that he would come to the salt farm to pick up salt for a while. If it didn't arrive within ten days, he would let Zhang Yang transport the salt directly to Yangzhou City to find her. She was too relieved that even Zhang Yang himself felt flattered. These salts were A lot of money!
In order to hide people's eyes and ears, Zhang Yang did not buy coal directly on the way back to the base. That's too ostentatious. It is estimated that it will take a few days to transport coal with the official's salt ship. Even the small fish at the bottom of the river will be shouting:
"Look, the salt boat is not salt, but coal!"
"Why does he transport coal? Isn't this fake for personal gain?"
"This is still secondary. It's not cold now. What do you do with coal?"
"I heard that coal can make iron and make weapons. Come on, let me tell you a little news. This is what the lobster I saw last time. ...”
He drove the official ship back to the salt farm and explained it to the commander of the salt farm for a long time. The salt was still the same as the rich man's brother last time. He encountered something on the way and couldn't leave. He let himself transport it for him once. I tried my best to convince my immediate boss.
The salt in the salt farm is not enough, so it will take a few days to be transported away.
Taking advantage of these few days, Zhang Yang took a few brothers to drive a boat from the murder port to Gaoyou Mansion to buy coal.
Gaoyou is a relatively large city, in which there are many large households, while large rich households like to burn coal.
The boat was parked near Gaoyou. Several people carried poles and entered Gaoyou Mansion in batches and came out in batches.
Salt and iron is officially operated, but coal is not. There are not so many soldiers checking these black things. Zhang Yang successfully bought coal from a coal farm in Gaoyou and picked it on the ship.
Although the coal was bought, Zhang Yang was heartbroken: such a large amount of money is simply a robbery!
In addition to buying coal, Zhang Yang also bought two pigs. He still remembers his promise to let the people on the island eat meat.
Everything is ready. Zhang Yang directs everyone to board the ship and go! Back to the base.
His heart has already flown back to the base.